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1934: Judi Dench is born--York, North Yorkshire, England.
1961: Bond comic strip For Your Eyes Only ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 11 September 1961. 988-1065)
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.
https://literary007.com/2015/05/02/unused-literary-bond-scenes-that-should-be-filmed-part-002/
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/fyeo.php3
Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-8-1966/
http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no29-1974/
Frank McCarthy
1974 Re-release
1997: World Charity premiere of Tomorrow Never Dies at the London Odeon. No Royal family in attendance this time.
http://pbfiles.net/tnd/tnd-premiere1.html
1963: Jack Whittingham issues a writ against Ian Fleming for damages citing libel, malicious falsehood, damage to professional reputation.
1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Japan.
1995: Zlato oko (The Golden Eye) released in Slovenia.
1999: James Bond 007 - Die Welt ist nicht genug released in Austria.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Denmark.
2011: The Aston Martin DB5 sees after hours action on Childers Street, Lewisham, London, as the Skyfall escape to Scotland sequence is filmed.
1961: James Bond comic strip Thunderball begins its run in The Daily Mail. (Ends 10 February 1962. 1066-1128)
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.
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1171-1120
1122-1123
1126-11327
1128
1979: Moonraker released in the Philippines.
2002: Die Another Day released in Venezuela.
2006: "You Know My Name" CD single released.
1964: The Goldfinger soundtrack makes the Billboard chart, eventually reaches #1, spends 77 weeks in top 200.
1981: Sólo para sus ojos (Only For Your Eyes, also Catalan title Només per als teus ulls) released in Spain.
1993: The (James Bond 007 International Fan Club's) "Diamonds are Forever 22-Carat Christmas Lunch" is held at Pinewood Studios with Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, and the moon buggy.
2002: Die Another Day released in Australia, the Dominican Republic, and Lebanon.
2002: 007: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Mexico.
2002: Умри, но не сейчас (Die But Not Now) released in Russia.
1915: Curd Jürgens is born--Solin, Munich, Germany. (He dies 18 June 1982 at age 66--Vienna, Austria.)
1941: Anouska Hempel (The Australian Girl) is born--Wellington, New Zealand.
1958: Lynn-Holly Johnson is born--Chicago, Illinois.
1958: The first Bond comic strip Casino Royale ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Finishes 7 July 1958. 1-138) John McLusky, artist. Anthony Hern, writer.
Danish
http://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/13/james-bonds-39-bumps.html?_r=0
RICHARD MAIBAUM - DEC. 13, 1964
I ONCE told the late Ian Fleming that he wrote too well. Speaking strictly as a screenwriter, that is, who is handed a novel by a producer and told to translate it into celluloid. In the long run, of course, the director does that, but the screenplay is his blueprint and has inherent in it the completed motion picture.
Mr. Fleming seemed pleased, beaming when I ascribed to him “an untransferable literary quality,” but I’m sure he did not entirely realize I was paying him a left - handed compliment. Again from the standpoint of the screen dramatist.
There is little doubt in my mind that the success of the Bond films stems directly from the success of the novels, their combination of terror and elegance, sophisti[cation]...
Fleming's tongue‐in-cheek attitude toward his material (intrigue, expertise, violence, love, death) finds a ready mass response in a world where audiences enjoy sick jokes. Incidentally, it is the aspect of Fleming which the films have most developed. Sometimes, I think, far beyond what Fleming himself intended. He said as much to me once when he commented rather innocently, “Somehow the pictures seem funnier than my books.”
Digging Deep
Having said all this about the novels, it would appear that a screenwriter adapting them would feel like a fortunate prospector discovering an inexhaustible mother‐lode of pure gold. And yet there are problems.
A screenwriter is limited to setting down, as suggestion to the director, only what can be said and done by actors and what can be photographed by the cameraman. Lovely descriptive passages; illuminating streams of consciousness revealing character; great hunks of brilliant, interesting exposition; carefully documented quasitreatises; all must go.
A case in point is a scene in “Goldfinger” in which Bond is strapped to a workbench and menaced by an approaching circular saw. Somehow in the reading, because Fleming writes so effectively, “The Perils of Pauline” do not immediately occur to one. Vividly depicted on the screen, however, we were sure audiences would find the episode old‐fashioned, hackneyed and ludicrous. What to do? We substituted an industrial laser beam, a development as fresh as tomorrow, for the antiquated circular saw. Do I hear anyone asking sotto voce about the screenwriter's blushes? If he was the blushing type he wouldn't be doing Bond screenplays in the first place. Besides, it's all good clean fun, or so he tells himself.
Logic is another problem. Once, as a young man, I worked as Writer Number 34, I think, for Alfred Hitchcock on “Foreign Correspondent.” I told him I thought a certain situation was illogical. He looked at me sadly and replied, “Dear boy, don't be dull. I’m not interested in logic, but in effects. If the audience ever thinks about logic it's on their way home from the theater and by that time they’ve already paid for their tickets.”
Verisimilitude
Still there is a point beyond which audiences will reject a film for too many abuses of actuality. In “Goldfinger,” for example, Fleming has Goldfinger, a supposedly criminal genius, plot to break into Fort Knox and steal 16 billion dollars worth of gold bullion. Fleming, bless him, in the best Hitchcockian tradition, never bothered his head about how long it would take to transport that amount of gold, or how many men and vehicles would be required. Obviously, it would take weeks, hundreds of trucks and hundreds of men. The problem that faced us was not an easy one. Why, we...
Rough Grind
Then there is the question of “bumps.” Hitchcock once said to me, “If I have 13 ‘bumps’ I know I have a picture.” By “bumps,” he meant, of course, shocks, highpoints, thrills, whatever you choose to call them. From the beginning, through “Dr. No,” “From Russia With Love,” and now with “Goldfinger,” Mr. Broccoli and Mr. Saltzman, the producers, and myself have not been content with 13 “bumps.” We aim for 39. Our objective has been to make every foot of film pay off in terms of exciting entertainment. Fleming, too, has his “bumps,” but not nearly enough for the kind of films we’re trying to make.
Actually, Fleming himself, unlike many authors of well-known literary works to be made into films, seemed unusually complacent as to how his books were treated. The only question he ever asked...
The actual characterization of James Bond (and we are lucky devils to have Sean Connery) was also a departure from the novels. Both Terence Young and Guy Hamilton, our directors, shared and augmented the concept of Bond as visualized by the producers and myself. That concept retained a basic super‐sleuth, super‐fighter, super‐hedonist, super‐lover of Fleming's, but added another large dimension: humor. Humor vocalized in wry comments at critical moments. In the books, Bond was singularly lacking in this.
A bright young producer accord me one day with glittering eyes. “I’m making a parody of the James Bond films.” How, I asked myself, does one make a parody of a parody? For that is precisely, in the final analysis, what we have done with Fleming's books. Parodied them. I’m not sure that Ian himself ever completely realized this. Or perhaps I underestimate his perception. At any rate, he seemed happy with what we were doing.
The writer adapted "Dr. No," "From Russia With Love" and "Goldfinger," which opens at the DeMille and Coronet Theaters on Dec. 21, to the screen.
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1973: Å leve og la dø released in Norway.
1973: Lev og lad dø released in Denmark.
1997: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre premieres in Portugal.
2002: Die Another Day released in Colombia, Ecuador, Thailand, and Uruguay.
1953: Vijay Amritraj is born--Madras, Madras State, India.
1960: Gregory Ratoff (born 20 April 20 1897--Samara, Russian Empire) dies at age 63--Solothurn, Switzerland. Later in 1961, his widow sells the Casino Royale film rights to producer Charles K. Feldman for $75,000.
1967: You Only Live Twice released in Australia and Hong Kong.
1983: Never Say Never Again UK Royal Charity Premiere at the Warner West End Cinema, Leicester Square, London.
1997: Tomorrow Never Dies limited release in the Netherlands.
2006: "You Know My Name" release as a single. B-side: Soundgarden song "Black Hole Sun" acoustic version.
2009: The Orient Express, featured in From Russia With Love book and film, ceases operations. Replaced by high-speed trains and air travel. (The Venice-Simplon Orient Express train--an Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. private venture, now Belmond--still runs carriages circa 1920s-1930s from London to Venice and even the original Paris to Istanbul route.)
2014: EON releases statements confirming a cyber-attack on Sony stole an early version of the BOND 24 screenplay .
1948: Cassandra Harris is born--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
(She dies 29 December 1991 at age 43--Los Angeles, California.
1958: Bond comic strip Live and Let Die begins its run in the Daily Express. (Ends 28 March 1959. 139-225)
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.
Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-3-eng/
1977: 007: La espía que me amó released in Mexico.
1983: Never Say Never Again released in the UK and Australia. (Compare to US release 7 October.)
1989: 007 - Permissão para Matar (Permission to Kill) released in Brazil.
1995: GoldenEye released in Iceland and Switzerland.
1995: 007: GoldenEye released in Mexico.
1995: 007 Contra GoldenEye released in Brazil.
1995: 007 ja kultainen silmä (And a Golden Eye) released in Finland.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Venezuela.
2006: Casino Royale released in Pakistan and Uruguay.
2006: 007: Cassino Royale released in Brazil .
2006: Prapanchaniki Okkadu (One to the World) released in India.
2014: Vodka producer Belvedere showcases two limited edition 007 bottles at a London Film Museum launch party.
A Vodka Martini In The New ‘Spectre’ Movie
businessinsider.com/belvedere-vodka-partners-james-bond-spectre-2014-12
Lara O'Reilly - Dec. 15, 2014, 7:01 PM
Belvedere, the luxury vodka brand owned by the LVMH Group, is partnering with the next movie in the James Bond franchise, “Spectre.”
Harnessing Bond’s penchant for vodka martinis and his iconic “Shaken, not stirred” line, Belvedere becomes the official vodka of the movie, which is due for cinematic release next November from Sony Pictures Entertainment.
The news will be something of a relief for Bond fans: In previous movies the spy had been seen (implausibly) drinking Heineken and (more plausibly) Smirnoff. Fans tend to forget he also drank Red Stripe in the first movie, Dr. No. The arrival of Belvedere will therefore pull Bond upmarket a bit.
Sitting down with Business Insider at a suitably secretive London location this week (think "spies," that's all we're allowed to say,) Belvedere Vodka president Charles Gibbs told us the partnership marks the brand’s “biggest” marketing push to date, although he declined to divulge financial details. It is hoped the partnership will raise awareness of the brand globally and highlight Belvedere vodka's quality credentials.
To kick off the partnership, Belvedere has created two (very large) 1.75l limited edition bottles, which it will showcase at a launch party at London's Film Museum tonight (December 15.)
The MI6 bottle pays homage to 007's HQ, swapping the signature Belvedere blue ink with the color of green ink used by MI6 officials to sign documents. Belvedere has also replaced the iconic Belvedere Palace that appears on its bottles with an etching of the MI6 building. Only 100 of this bottle will be made, but they won’t be available to buy. Instead Belvedere plans to gift them to “Bond aficionados” and put them up for charity auctions.
Here's the MI6 bottle:
The second, more flashy bottle is called the 007 Silver Saber. The metallic bottle lights up, thanks to an in-built LED system. It will be available on sale next year "in selective distribution."
Here's the 007 Silver Saber:
Next year, the campaign will ramp up with TV, cinema, digital ads, additional special packs and events planned. As the film is still in production, Gibbs could not confirm exactly what role Belvedere will play in Spectre. Gibbs also turned coy when asked whether there was the possibility of partnering with one of the other brands paying for product placement in the film (Aston Martin is the only other brand confirmed to appear so far, although that doesn't seem a likely fit.)
The main appeal of the partnering with the Bond franchise was its global reach beyond its core base of 25 to 40-year-old customers, but Gibbs also hopes the partnership will allow the aspirational Belvedere brand to "break through the clutter" of marketing messages from big-spending alcohol brands by associating with a "moment in popular culture."
The martini story also allows Belevedere to authentically talk up the provenance of its ingredients. The vodka is made from Dankowskie Rye and blended with own water from its own source in Poland, all key messages the brand hopes will hit home with lapsed drinkers as well as those new to the brand. It is hoped that making Belvedere Bond's choice for a vodka martini will also encourage bartenders to push the product to their cocktail lists.
LVMH, which also owns the Moët Hennessy brand, saw a 7% drop year on year in reported revenue in the first 9 months of 2014 to €2.63 billion. At the time of reporting, the company said the trend was reflective of a declining cognac market in China. It did not split out separate figures for Belvedere, but said the brand had "sustained volume growth."
1967: Bond comic strip The Hildebrand Rarity ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 29 May 1967. 429-602)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no17-1969/
Swedish https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3
Swedish https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3
1983: Neka aldrig två gånger (Never Deny Twice, Swedish title) released in Finland.
1995: GoldenEye released in Japan and the Republic of Korea.
(Catalan title El demà no mor mai or Tomorrow Does Not Die).
nytimes.com/2002/12/15/world/north-korea-denounces-james-bond-film.html
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE - DEC. 15, 2002
North Korea issued a statement today denouncing the latest James Bond film, ''Die Another Day,'' for ''insulting the Korean nation.''
''The U.S. should stop at once the dirty and cursed burlesque'' the official Korean Central News Agency said, citing a bulletin by the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland.
In the film, the fictional secret agent 007 is captured in North Korea and tortured. He also has sex in a Buddhist temple.
The film is ''a deliberate and premeditated act of mocking at and insulting the Korean nation,'' the news agency said, citing the bulletin, and shows that the United States is ''the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation,'' ''an empire of evil'' and ''the headquarters that spreads abnormality, degeneration, violence and fin-de-siècle corrupt sex culture.''
1965: Thunderball released in Australia.
1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in USA.
http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/lald-dk-pressemateriale-1973/
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Switzerland and Kuwait.
1999: Demain ne meurt jamais released in France.
" You won t see anything like this on tv until the year 2500"
Danish praise for LALD.
1967: Bond comic strip The Spy Who Loved Me begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 3 October 1968. 603-815) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer. The 18th and final Bond comic for them.
Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-18-1969/ http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-20-1970/
Swedish https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3
1969: Agent 007 i Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste (Agent 007 In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Denmark.
http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/ohmss-dk-filmprogram-1969/
1969: I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst (In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Sweden.
1969: Au service secret de Sa Majesté (At His Majesty's Secret Service) released in France.
1969: Agente 007 - Al servizio segreto di Sua Maestà (At the Secret Service of His Majesty) released in Italy.
1997: James Bond 007 - Der Morgen stirbt nie released in Germany.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in the Republic of Korea.
2002: Die Another Day released in Indonesia and Kuwait.
1960: Fleming assigns Thunderball to Trustees – Glidrose Productions.
1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in the UK and USA.
1969: Hänen majesteettinsa salaisessa palveluksessa (His Majesty in Secret Service; Swedish title I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst, In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Finland.
1969: James Bond 007 - Im Geheimdienst Ihrer Majestät (James Bond 007 - In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in West Germany.
The New York Times
Screen: New James Bond:George Lazenby Follows the Connery Pattern
December 19, 1969 - By A. H. WEILER
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F07E5DC1131EE3BBC4152DFB4678382679EDE&pagewanted=print
A BARE fact must be faced. The superheated screen activities of Ian Fleming's supersleuth and sex symbol, James Bond, are as inevitable as sex or crime or "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," the sixth steaming annal in the sock 'em and spoof 'em spy series that crashed into the DeMille and other local theaters yesterday.
Serious criticism of such an esteemed institution would be tantamount to throwing rocks at Buckingham Palace, but it does call for a handful of pebbles. Devotees will note that Sean Connery, the virile, suave conqueror of all those dastards and dames in the five previous capers, has given up his 007 Bond credentials to George Lazenby, a 30-year-old Australian newcomer to films. He's tall, dark, handsome and has a dimpled chin. But Mr. Lazenby, if not a spurious Bond, is merely a casual, pleasant, satisfactory replacement.
For the record, he plays a decidedly second fiddle to an overabundance of continuous action, a soundtrack as explosive as the London Blitz, and flip dialogue and characterizations set against some authentic, truly spectacular Portuguese and Swiss scenic backgrounds, caught in eyecatching colors.
What are Bond's problems now? They're too numerous, as usual, to hold the constant attention of anyone other than a charter member of Her Majesty's Secret Service. What sets our bully boy off and fighting, running, shooting and loving this time is a lissome, leggy lass mysteriously bent on drowning herself in the waves thunderously crashing on a lonely Portuguese beach.
First thing you know he's involved in a battle with two toughs that is as full of karate chops and belts in the belly as a brawl in a Singapore alley. To the credit of Richard Maibaum, the scenarist, the film's tongue-in-cheek attitude is set right at the outset. Once our new Bond emerges triumphant, he turns to the audience and says, somewhat plaintively: "This never happened to the other fellow."
But it does. The lady of his life, the svelte Diana Rigg, who learned her karate chops from the British TV "Avenger" series, is the daughter of the blandly effete Gabriele Ferzetti, Mafioso-like tycoon, who likes Bond and wants to destroy that Spectre chief, Telly Savalas, his competition in world crime. That suits Bond too, and practically right off he's in Switzerland, where our villain maintains an eyrie atop an Alp.
It's an inaccessible retreat, supposedly an institute for allergy research complete with hired guns, scientific gimmicks and an international conclave of allegedly allergic beauties who are really being brainwashed by the oily, bald-domed Mr. Savalas to spread his biological destruction of the world's food supply. Get it?
Bond dallies with the dolls, of course, but the heart of the matter is a series of chases shot by the 41-year-old Peter Hunt, second unit director of the previous adventures, who's making his directorial debut with this one. The chases are breakneck, devastating affairs.
A viewer must remember what seems to be the longest ski chase and bobsled run ever, full of gunfire and spills, that even includes an avalanche. There also is a decibel-filled fight amid clanging Swiss cow bells, the jarring bombing of that eyrie by helicopter-borne rescuers and the inadvertent clashes of the escaping Bond and Miss Rigg in a slithering, bang-up stock car race. One must say amen to a colleague's observation:
"I never expected to see Switzerland defoliated like "this."
It should be reported that the producers and distributors already have rung up a reported $82,200,000 on their first five Bond issues. It is not ungallant to report that Bond marries Miss Rigg, who is gunned down and killed by Savalas on their honeymoon. So it is reasonable to expect that Bond inevitably will be loving, shooting and running again.
1974: James Bond 007 - Der Mann mit dem goldenen Colt (James Bond 007: The Man With the Golden Colt) released in West Germany.
1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Canada. (French title Demain ne meurt jamais).
1997" Завтра не умрёт никогда (Tomorrow Will Never Die) released in Russia,
1997: A&M releases the "Tomorrow Never Dies" single.
The New York Times
FILM REVIEW; Shaken, Not Stirred, Bond Is in Business
nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F04E1DB113FF93AA25751C1A961958260
By JANET MASLIN - Published: December 19, 1997
No need to feel badly if the right watch, drink, cell phone, etc., don't turn you into James Bond. They don't really do it for Pierce Brosnan in ''Tomorrow Never Dies,'' either. Despite Mr. Brosnan's best efforts to be lethally debonair, the Bond franchise has sacrificed most of what made this character unique in the first place, turning the world's suavest spy into one more pitchman and fashion plate. This latest film is such a generic action event that it could be any old summer blockbuster, except that its hero is chronically overdressed.
This is not to say that ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' won't be an international success like ''Goldeneye,'' which wasn't much better. But it should fare best in corners of the world where nobody knows how little the title means, or how accurately it reflects the rest of the film's shallowness. Closer than ever to cartoon superhero status, Bond is seen battling ridiculous odds, dodging computer-generated explosions, delivering lame bon mots and boasting pitifully about his sexual prowess. All that gives this an up-to-date sensibility is the audience's awareness that M (Judi Dench) and Moneypenny (Samantha Bond) could sue him for sexual harassment on the basis of his small talk.
This film does have a lively villain in Jonathan Pryce, as a media mogul who dreams of everything from manufacturing his own war to marketing software with bugs (so that customers will have to upgrade for years). Mr. Pryce reigns mischievously over an empire that Bond must infiltrate, and he also has a wife (Teri Hatcher) who is one of Bond's approximately one million ex-flames. Ms. Hatcher, like Mr. Brosnan, speaks in a perfect monotone, and so does Michelle Yeoh, the Hong Kong action star who is meant to kick some life into the series.
The film's other attempts to show Bond in a romantic light are so hopeless that it's a lucky thing his partnership with Ms. Yeoh's character, the svelte and athletic Wai Lin, stays confined to toylike weaponry and flat double-entendres.
''And now a word from our sponsor,'' muttered the critic beside me, as the camera offered a good look at James Bond's vodka bottle midway through the so-called story. (The humor-free screenplay is by Bruce Feirstein, author of ''Real Men Don't Eat Quiche'' as well as ''Goldeneye.'' The workmanlike director is Roger Spottiswoode.) Indeed, despite Bond's mission to defeat the evil mogul, product plugs are the film's most serious business, especially since the audience may be bored enough to start looking at labels.
The film's two best supporting turns come from Vincent Schiavelli, who has a cheerfully outrageous scene as a torture expert, and from a nice, smart BMW that works on remote control. Hiding in the back seat, Bond pilots the car through a tire-screeching chase. Don't try this at home.
''Tomorrow Never Dies'' is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes violence a la videogames, smirky innuendoes and a couple of brief sexual situations.
(Born 12 September 1914--Newport, Wales. UK.)[/quote]
2002: Die Another Day released in Chile.
2002: Halj meg máskor (Hang On at Another Time) released in Hungary.
2002: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Peru.
2002: Umri kdaj drugič (Die Sometime Else) released in Slovenia.
Marc Laming, artist. Greg Pak, writer.
Dave Johnson, Cover A.
Marguerite Sauvage, Cover B.
Clayton Henry, Cover C.
Mark Laming, Cover D.
1959: The Atticus column of the Sunday Times presents some thoughts from Ian Fleming on Christmas.
http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/frwl-dk-release-poster-1963/
http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/category/films/from-russia-with-love-1963/
Re-release
1971: Les diamants sont éternels (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in France.
1971: Diamantfeber released in Sweden.
Not to be confused with.
1974: Czlowiek ze zlotym pistoletem (A Man With a Golden Pistol) released in Poland.
1974: The Man With the Golden Gun released in the UK, USA, and Ireland.
1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in the Philippines.
1985: A View to a Kill released in the Philippines.
1995: GoldenEye released in Belgium, France, and Spain.
2002: Prapancha Veerudu 007 (World Hero 007, Telugu title) released in India.
2009: Screenwriter Peter Morgan reveals an unimaginable twist planned for BOND 23--
2018: Ian Fleming Publications gives Seasons Greetings.
1964: Goldfinger premieres in the US--at the DeMille Theatre, New York City, NY.
(Compare to UK premiere 17 September in London. Followed by Hollywood, CA 25 December.
Then US general release 9 January 1965.)
(Followed by US general release 22 December. UK release 29 December. The true world premiere was earlier: December 9, Hibiya Cinema, Tokyo, Japan.)
1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Denmark.
1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service principal shooting ends. (Began: 21 October.)
1969: Ilse Steppat at age 51--West Berlin, Germany. (Born 30 November 917--Barmen, Germany.)
1973: Leven en laten sterven released in Belgium.
1995: GoldenEye released in Hong Kong.
1999: Desmond Llewelyn's obituary appears in The Independent two days after his passing.
2017: Ian Fleming Publications gives Christmas Greetings with their annual card.
Sourced from.
1962: Ralph Fiennes is born--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
1964: Bosley Crowther reviews Goldfinger in The New York Times.
1965: Bosley Crowther reviews Thunderball in The New York Times.
1965: Thunderball released in the US.
1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Italy.
1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale! released in Sweden.
1969: 007 al servicio secreto de su Majestad (007 To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Spain.
1973: Leva och låta dö released in Sweden.
1985: A View to a Kill released in the Republic of Korea.
2006: Casino Royale released in Panama.
2016: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings.
1944: Ian Fleming arrives in Colombo, Ceylon, and strikes up a friendship with Wren Clare Blanshard.
1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in Australia, Hong Kong, and the Netherlands.
1974: El hombre de la pistola de oro (The Man With the Golden Pistol) released in Spain. (L'home de la pistola d'or, Catalan title.)
Disclaimer: not this one.
1999: 007, el mundo no basta released in Argentina.
2013: Ian Fleming Publications unveils its new logo.
https://thejamesbonddossier.com/news/ian-fleming-publications-unveils-new-logo.htm
December 23, 2013 by David Leigh
Ian Fleming Publications last week unveiled a smart new logo comprising of the signatureian-fleming-publications-logo of James Bond’s creator and a “Doctor Bird”, Jamaica’s national bird.
There are numerous links to the bird, also known as the Streamer-tailed Humming Bird; all the Bond books were written at Goldeneye in Jamaica; 007 was named after the ornithologist who wrote A Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies; and the Doctor Bird was mentioned by Fleming in the books.
1931: Jill Bennett is born--Penang, Malaysia. (She dies 4 October 1990 at age 58--Kensington, London, England.)
1941: Michael Billington is born--Blackburn, Lancashire, England. (He dies 3 June 2005 at age 63--Margate, Kent, England.)
1971: James Bond comic Starfire comic finishes its run in Daily Express. (Started 30 August 1971. 1709–1809)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1005
http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no26-1973/
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Cyprus, Ecuador, Peru, plus Trinidad and Tobago.
1999: 007 - O Mundo Não é o Bastante released in Brazil.
1999: 007: El mundo no basta released in Mexico.
1964: Goldfinger US premiere--Hollywood, CA.
(That's after the New York City premiere, and before the 9 January US general release,)
1965: Pallosalama (Fireball; Åskbollen/Thunderball, Swedish title) released in Finland.
1969: Al servicio secreto de Su Majestad (To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Colombia.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Colombia and Panama.
1999: Само един свят не стига released in Bulgaria.
2001: Russia DVD premiere for From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice.
2002: Die Another Day released in Bolivia and Jamaica.
2006: Casino Royale released in Bolivia.
2015: Radiohead releases their unused Bond theme for Spectre.
1943: Ian Fleming's mistress--society hostess Maud Russell--records in her diary details of war planning, influenza.
1964: Agent 007 contra Goldfinger released in Denmark.
1983: Never Say Never Again released in Norway.
1995: GoldenEye released in Australia, Norway, and New Zealand.
1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Australia and New Zealand.
1997: 007: Igavene homne released in Estonia.
1997: Yarin Asla Ölmez released in Turkey.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in New Zealand.
2008: Quantum of Solace released in Uruguay.
2011: Pedro Armendáriz Jr. dies at age 71--New York City, New York.
(Born 6 April 1940--Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.)
25.12.93 : Batman Mask of Phantasm (greatest bat flick ever imo)
1960: Maryam d'Abo is born--London, England.
1974: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ο άνθρωπος με το χρυσό πιστόλι (James Bond, Agent 007: The Man With the Gold Pistol) released in Greece.
(Born 22 November 1899--Bloomington, Indiana.)
2017: Dynamite Bond comic Kill Chain becomes available for purchase.
https://www.cbr.com/james-bond-kill-chain-6/
12.25.2017 -
by CBR Staff in Comic Previews Comment
Story by Andy Diggle
Art by Luca Casalanguida
Cover by Greg Smallwood
Publisher Dynamite Entertainment
SMERSH has activated Operation Hooded Falcon, bringing Europe to its knees and NATO to the brink of collapse. A key ally is about to fall into Russia’s grasp, re-drawing the geopolitical map and setting a new foundation for the coming century. But one man can make a difference. You know his name.
1956: Fleming writes a letter to Wren Howard questioning his own "enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures."
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/ts.php3
http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no27-1974/
Artist Jason Masters. Writer Warren Ellis.
The explosive conclusion to the second JAMES BOND 007 story - Eidolon are in the open, British Intelligence is cracked and in disarray, friends are dead and enemies seem unstoppable - can James Bond intercept the most direct strike of all, from the dead hand of SPECTRE to the heart of British government?
1965: Thunderball released in the UK--premiere at the London Pavilion Cinema.
1971: Gyémántok az örökkévalóságnak (Diamonds For Eternity) released in Hungary.
1991: Cassandra Harris dies at age 43--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 15 December 1948--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.)
1995: GoldenEye released in Austria.
1865: Joseph Rudyard Kipling is born--Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India.
(He dies 18 January 1936 at age 70--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2569/2569-h/2569-h.htm#link2H_4_0009
1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in the UK.
Concept art
1989: Licence to Kill released in the Republic of Korea.
2012: Skyfall reaches the landmark 1 billion (US) dollar point for worldwide box-office.
2016: Game over--shutdown of the Glu Mobile servers brings an end to James Bond: World of Espionage.
1945: Barbara Carrera is born--Bluefields, Nicaragua.
1961: The Sunday Express Susan Barnes interview for her piece "Women and Me — by the Screen's James Bond" reportedly ends on the subject of violence towards women and with Barnes abruptly exiting Connery's apartment.
1994: Chivers North America publishes a large print version of John Gardner's Bond novel Never Send Flowers.
1998: The New Year Honours List recognizes Roger Moore to become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his UNICEF work.
2002: Die Another Day released in the Republic of Korea.
2034: With the ending of the 70th year following author Ian Fleming's death, in theory his books and stories enter the public domain. (Though remedied by Danjaq LLC's registered trademarks for James Bond and 007.)